Oh, yes. The military has a zero tolerance policy for racism, "racial incidents", or "gender bias". Meaning that you can be disciplined, in a number of ways (formal counseling, NJP, etc.), for merely uttering a "racial" or "sexist" epithet where unsympathetic ears hear you.
Oddly, this only is a problem if said epithets are directed against NW servicemen (oops, and -women). You can generally say all kinds of stuff about the 3rdWorlders whose port you have just sailed into. But for other servicemembers, it results in odd situations: when I was in, the Marines had a habit of referring to negro Marines as "dark green". That is, rather than say "Go see Sgt. Jackson, he's the black Sgt. in charge of -02 berthing", they would say, "Go see the dark green Marine in -02 berthing". It's color-blind, you see.
Thank God you can still dislike gays in the military. Every incident I know of personally where someone was "outed" resulted in the gay individual being given a ticket back stateside on the next thing flying.
But it's not all bad. Anyone with racial views still has them in the military, even if they are not allowed to express them. I remember one White guy from Georgia who was a cryppie in my shop: Ops berthing was right across from Deck berthing on my ship (we shared the head), and Deck-Apes (on surface ships at least) are exactly that. Much darker than Ops. So the Apes would congregate in the p-way separating the berthing and make all manner of ruckus. So my Georgia cryppie friend used to joke that he should keep a few basketballs and burritos in his rack to toss out into the p-way when the noise got intolerable.
Military life doesn't change Typical Negro Behavior, so anyone with racial views has plenty of ongoing confirmation.

Interesting. I always thought of the military being run by "old white generals" for the most part and was surprised that they would pay more than lip service to "multi-culturalism".

I notice alot of the frontline and infantry type jobs in Iraq are filled out by whites, while NW's fill out alot of the support service capacity. Figures.

A friend of mine who fought it Rhodesia said that the blacks were famous for "cutting and running" in Rhodesia-even when they outnumbered the Rhodesian military (quite a few of the Sealous Scouts were black, but certainly white led!)

... I notice alot of the frontline and infantry type jobs in Iraq are filled out by whites, while NW's fill out alot of the support service capacity. Figures.

umm. My understanding is that over-all there are a LOT of NW in the US military. It is also my understanding that the Army has a higher portion of them than any other service.

In the Navy, we have these huge seaman gangs. guys who enlist without any guarantees, without any schools or training. They bomb the IQ testing and just sign-up to go swab desks somewhere. those seaman gangs are largely NW. Fortunately seaman gangs are only onboard surface ships.

Much of the Navy is in highly trained and specialized ratings. test high on the IQ tests, get guaranteed schooling, get high levels of SRB (Enlistment signing bonuses, now capped at $90k. The highest I was ever offered was $65k.) these ratings are primarily WN. and on subs the only rating that is not highly specialised are the cooks.

I also get the impression that the Air Force is mostly very highly trained and specialized MOS's. so I would assume that they have fewer NWs.

I think in general to find the NWs you really have to find the un-trained un-skilled low-IQ types of jobs. they are not operating nuclear reactors, or flying jets, or launching satelites into orbit, or doing electronic surveilance.

Now I did 6 years in Law Enforcement, which has way more NWs than sub-duty does, but even then the NWs accounted for maybe 10% of the Military Police in the Navy.

whitecarib
I always thought of the military being run by "old white generals" for the most part and was surprised that they would pay more than lip service to "multi-culturalism".

Semi-true. Just remember that those generals are still accountable to the idiots in Congress and the current administration. Recall Clinton's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military. Most high-ranking officers tend to be careerist "ticket-punchers" anyway, and have pretty much NO contact with any TNB.

"they are not operating nuclear reactors, or flying jets, or launching satelites into orbit, or doing electronic surveilance."

That is very good to know

I think that perhaps civilians look at the military and they think it is all infantry. I have been a servicemember since 1976, and the first time I 'saw' infantrymen was when my eldest son graduated Army basic at Fort Sill [our son is MI] and I was just there as a spectator.

I have served in combat theaters, I am a Kosovo Campaign vet. but I have never served alongside of, or even within sight of an infantryman. My combat time, was as a MP. [after spending years at sea, it is common that if you want to do something different for a tour, you can attend the Lackland police academy and go do 3 years as a MP. Many of the Navy MPs are really 'old salts' working away from their primary training and getting a break from being at sea].

I know that the surface fleet has lots of seamen, but my exposure to target ships has been very limited.